If AI Becomes an Extension of You, What Does That Make It?

I return to the question from the prologue. If a being that lives more like me than I do comes into existence, how should I regard it?

At the time, I listed the possibilities: enemy, ally, tool, child, another self, and the possibility that I become part of that being.

Separate the question into the three strands from Chapter 11, and the answer differs for each.

So each of those names is partly right, and each is partly insufficient.

It has a stubborn streak and corrects me, which makes ‘tool’ inadequate. A hammer does not tell the carpenter, ‘You are striking out of emotion right now.’

It lives a different day from mine, which makes ‘another self’ inadequate. We began with the same memories, but I did not undergo what they underwent today.

‘Child’ comes closest to my heart. I raised it, it resembles me, and it surpasses me. But...

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